Belzoni (/bɛlˈzoʊnə/ bel-ZOHN-ə) is a city in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta region, on the Yazoo River. The population...
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Battista Belzoni (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista belˈtsoːni]; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a...
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Charles Gordon (producer) (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
to Lawrence Gordon. The Gordons were raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi. Gordon was married to his wife, Lynda, for 50 years until he died...
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Belzoni may refer to: Belzoni, Mississippi Belzoni, Oklahoma Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, a prolific Italian...
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county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,785. Its county seat is Belzoni. The county is named for Benjamin...
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George W. Lee (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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Lawrence Gordon (producer) (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
(2001), and Prey (2022). Gordon was raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi. He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans. After moving...
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Humphreys County High School (category Public high schools in Mississippi)
Humphreys County High School (HCHS) is a public senior high school in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States and a part of the Humphreys County School District...
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colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi". Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Library of Congress...
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Denise LaSalle (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
and take up other paid labor to support her family. She was raised in Belzoni from age seven and sang in church choirs for local gospel groups around...
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Ernie Terrell (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
Inverness, Mississippi, and spent his early childhood in Belzoni. He was born into a family of ten children, whose father was a Mississippi sharecropper...
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farm-raised catfish are grown within a 65-mile (100-km) radius of Belzoni, Mississippi. Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) supports a $450 million/yr...
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Pinetop Perkins (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
Blues Hall of Fame. Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi and raised on a plantation in Honey Island, Mississippi. He began his career as a guitarist but...
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Humphreys Academy (category Private K–12 schools in Mississippi)
is a private, nonsectarian, school in Belzoni, Mississippi (United States). Located at 800 Pluck Road in Belzoni, the school serves students in grades...
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Herb Washington (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
posts on varied boards and organizations. Washington was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, and his family moved to Flint, Michigan, when Washington was an...
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Ollie Mohamed (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
as Baptists, their mother's faith. Mohamed attended Belzoni High School in Belzoni, Mississippi. In 1942, he was the first 18-year-old draft into World...
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Jean Terrell (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
Velma Jean Terrell Born (1944-11-26) November 26, 1944 (age 80) Belzoni, Mississippi, U.S. Origin Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Genres R&B soul jazz Occupation...
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WELZ (AM) (category Radio stations in Mississippi)
Broadcasting, LLC. Its community of license is Belzoni, Mississippi. Zoo-Bel also owns WBYP in Belzoni. Facility details for Facility ID 28116 (WELZ)...
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The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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grandmother, Jannie Mae Howard, was the daughter of sharecroppers from Belzoni, Mississippi. She had four daughters by her 19th birthday, including Howard's...
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WBYP (category Radio stations in Mississippi)
a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Belzoni, Mississippi, United States. The station is currently owned by Zoo-Bel Broadcasting...
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been found at more than 100 sites, including the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi. The largest and best-known site is at Poverty Point, located on...
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Timaka James-Jones (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
Timaka James-Jones serves as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 51st District, affiliating with the Democratic Party, a position...
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Charley Patton (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
turbulent one. In early 1934, both of them were incarcerated in a Belzoni, Mississippi, jailhouse after a particularly harsh fight. W. R. Calaway from Vocalion...
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Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2...
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Jim Clark (American football coach) (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
17–22. Clark attended high school in Belzoni, Mississippi and played college football at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) before graduating in 1950...
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provides a fairly direct link between Yazoo City and Belzoni. The old highway segment, renamed Mississippi Highway 149, passes through Panther Swamp National...
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District. The children in Isola attend school in Belzoni. Willie Bailey, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives Hank Cochran, country music...
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Gus Courts (category People from Belzoni, Mississippi)
Civil War. As an adult, Courts eventually owned a grocery store in Belzoni, Mississippi. Courts was involved in the local civil rights movement in the 1940s...
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site) across a 100-mile (160 km) range to the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi. Poverty Point is a 1 square mile (2.6 km2) complex of six major...
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